Improvement in wash-boards



J. K. MILLER & F. o. BASHORVE'.

Improvement in Wash-Boards.

No 127,629, Patented June 4,1872.

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JAMES K. MILLER AND FERDINAND D. BASHORE, OF SHAMOKIN, PA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,629, dated June 4, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES K. MILLER and FERDINAND D. BASHORE, of Shamokin, in the county of Northumberland in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wash-Boards, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

The invention relates to providing the surface of a wash-board of Indiarubber with angular cavities having sides nearly vertical to the face of the wash-board the object of the invention being to provide a wash-board with cavities, which, while the operation of washing is being performed, shall so retain the wa ter that,'as the material is rubbed upon the surface of the board, it comes constantly in contact with the water in such cavities.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a device embodying the elements of the invention. Fig. 2 is a section of same, showing the cavities.

General Description.

A, in the accompanying drawing, is the washing-face, of India rubber, havin g the cleats B secured at each side, and provided with the feet 0, which may be an extension of the face A; or, as in the present instance, an extension of the back-board D, upon which the face A'is mounted. The upper part of the board is provided with the shelf E. The face A is provided with angular cavities, F, which extend in longitudinal series from the top to by the transverse ridges I, which extend in parallel lines and equidistant from each other diagonally across the face A.

It is obvious that all of the materials usually employed in the manufacture of wash-boards can be used in the present invention, which is p lower obtuse angle of one of the cavities, the

action of the rubber is not only upward, but it also presses from each side against the material pressed into the said angles.

The rubber face is provided with a tongue or flange on each side of proper width and equal in length to the face,'which tongues are secured to the back-board D by means of the cleats B.

Operation.

The device is placed in a tub or vessel containing a proper amount of water, having a proper inclination from top to bottom, the rear of the back-board resting against the edge of the inside of the tub and the feet 0 upon the upper surface of the bottom thereof. The material to be washed is now immersed in the water and placed upon the face A; the water immediately fills the lower obtuse angles of the cavities F the operation is then continued by rubbing the material upon the face A.

. It is obvious that as the lower parts of the cavities F are full of water that the material must be kept wet for some time; and, also, that owing to the peculiar structure of the same but little if any water can splash up from the board; it is also obvious that the necessity of frequent immersions of the material being washed is avoided by the cavities F retaining the water, as aforesaid.

Claim.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I ridges I and cavities F, secured between the hands and seals.

cleats B and supported by the back-board D, JAMES K. MILLER. [L, 8.]

forming a Wash-board substantially as shown FERDINAND D. BASHORE. [L.

and described. 1 Witnesses:

In testimony that We claim the foregoing in- GEORGE W. BAsHoRE,

vention of improvements in wash-boards, as SAMUEL S. REED.

The India-rubber face A, provided with the above described, we have hereunto set our 

